Using the official information on which MP is attending which fringe meeting, this is how the autumn 2010 conference league table looks: 15 Vince Cable 14 Sarah Teather 13 Paul Burstow Andrew Stunell 12 Simon Hughes 11 Norman Baker 10 Tim Farron 9 Jeremy Browne Steve Webb 8 Chris Huhne 7 Ed Davey Lynne Featherstone
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 25th Aug 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
The final part of the Telegraph's Top 50 Liberal Democrats list appears today HERE. I missed off 11-21 yesterday, so I list that here too. 1. Nick Clegg 2. Vince Cable 3. Chris Huhne 4. Chris Rennard 5. Paddy Ashdown 6. Charles Kennedy 7. David Laws 8. Simon Hughes 9. Danny Alexander 10. Paul Marshall 11. Shirley Williams 12. Norman Baker 13. Tom McNally 14. Ed Davey 15. Lord Carlile 16. Evan...
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IainDale on 18th Sep 2008 (via iaindale.blogspot.com)
Using the official information on which MP is attending which fringe meeting, this is how the league table looks: 17 Cable 11 Goldsworthy Hughes Lamb Laws 10 Farron 9 Baker 8 Webb 7 Browne Clegg Davey Featherstone Huhne 6 Brooke Teather 5 Foster Gidley Moore Mulholland Rogerson Williams, S 4 Horwood Opik Rowen Swinson 3 Alexander Barrett Harris Thurso Willis Willott 2 Brake George Holmes Kennedy P...
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 13th Sep 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
LibDem Voice has done a survey of LibDem members to rate the performance of their Shadow team. Details are HERE. Nick Clegg will not be pleased. It comes to something when you're the leader of your party and you trail in fourth place (behind Norman Baker!) with a rating of 6.3. Clegg will be concerned by the fact that Chris Huhne is rated higher than him, behind the legend that is Vince Cable...
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IainDale on 8th Aug 2008 (via iaindale.blogspot.com)
Over the last week 1,380 of you have voted in my mammoth 2008 awards poll. Over the next few days I will be publishing the results. Conservative MP of 2008 1. David Davis 29% 2. Iain Duncan Smith 19% 3. Ken Clarke 16% Labour MP of 2008 1. Frank Field 45% 2. Bob Marshall-Andrews 22% 3. Jon Cruddas 12% LibDem MP of 2008 1. Vince Cable 64% 2. Lynne Featherstone 13% 3. Chris Huhne 10% Minority Party M...
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IainDale on 27th Dec 2008 (via iaindale.blogspot.com)
Vince Cable has made Chris Huhne's wife, Vicky Pryce, an offer that she felt she simply couldn't refuse.
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Telegraph on 30th Jun 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
It's been a big day for Market Harborough Liberal Democrats. During the day we had a visit from Vince Cable, who addressed a local business forum and visited the site of the proposed Pennbury eco-town as part of our campaign against its construction. Then, because Vince had to return to London to take part in Question Time, Chris Huhne came to speak at our annual dinner at the Angel Hotel, Ma...
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LiberalEngland on 20th Mar 2009 (via liberalengland.blogspot.com)
Here is an unexpected pleasure to savour over tomorrow's marmalade.Martin Ivens writes:The party that can draw on a first division of economic talent, is, surprisingly, the Liberal Democrats. Apart from the reassuring figure of Treasury spokesman Vince Cable, a former chief economist at Shell, other frontbench heavyweights - Chris Huhne, David Laws and Steve Webb - have a wealth of practical exper...
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LiberalEngland on 15th Jul 2008 (via liberalengland.blogspot.com)
Over at The Independent today, Lib Dem cabinet ministers Vince Cable and Chris Huhne argue that the Coalition Government’s plans to set up a Green Investment Bank, announced in the Budget, are of huge significance for establishing a successful green economy in this country. Here’s an excerpt: … there is much to be decided about
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 5th Jul 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
It’s been a busy day for two of the Lib Dems’ most tenacious shadow cabinet members today, with both Chris Huhne and Norman Baker urging investigations into Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne’s donation discussions with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. Chris Huhne wrote to the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, George Younger, asking him to confirm: that
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 23rd Oct 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)
Earlier this month Lynne Featherstone gave the Heather Larkin Annual Lecture in Yate: I am really pleased to be here tonight – yes it is a long trek here and back but worth it to pay tribute to Steve Webb. Steve is a great MP, a great campaigner, a great innovator on the internet – and
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 27th Sep 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)